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Page 70
... Low - Dutch with a difference , and that we came from those lands where the Low - Dutch blood and the Low - Dutch speech abide to this day . And here I must , per- haps , stop and explain myself . To some the use of the name Low - Dutch ...
... Low - Dutch with a difference , and that we came from those lands where the Low - Dutch blood and the Low - Dutch speech abide to this day . And here I must , per- haps , stop and explain myself . To some the use of the name Low - Dutch ...
Page 71
... Dutch . Within the last language , over Northern Germany too , and two hundred years we have got into a which is driving our own Low - Dutch speech strange way of using the word Dutch to into holes and corners . Now , if by Ger- mean ...
... Dutch . Within the last language , over Northern Germany too , and two hundred years we have got into a which is driving our own Low - Dutch speech strange way of using the word Dutch to into holes and corners . Now , if by Ger- mean ...
Page 72
... Dutch as one great division of the Aryan family , the_di- vision to which we ourselves belong . But here we must make a further division , and for my purpose it will be enough to make a very rough division , into Low - Dutch and High ...
... Dutch as one great division of the Aryan family , the_di- vision to which we ourselves belong . But here we must make a further division , and for my purpose it will be enough to make a very rough division , into Low - Dutch and High ...
Page 73
... Low Dutch , all hang together as opposed to the German of our books . I drew out , a little time back , some of the essential differences between English and that kind of German ; how certain let- is to say , the old Gothic was a highly ...
... Low Dutch , all hang together as opposed to the German of our books . I drew out , a little time back , some of the essential differences between English and that kind of German ; how certain let- is to say , the old Gothic was a highly ...
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... Low Countries , and of the great plain really higher position as among the ... Dutch , the speech plunging into revolutions . That their his- of Southern ... Dutch , like other tongues , has its one in a part of England which was once ...
... Low Countries , and of the great plain really higher position as among the ... Dutch , the speech plunging into revolutions . That their his- of Southern ... Dutch , like other tongues , has its one in a part of England which was once ...
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